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Saturday, May 07, 2016

Fraud: Trump may face trial

The United States leading Republican
presidential nominee, Mr. Donald Trump may end up in San Diego jail for
defrauding students of Trump University reports ITRealms.

This is coming as Donald J. Trump is
being investigated by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) over
his visit Thursday, May 5, 2016, during a poll at Wisconsin primary and was suspected
to have campaigned 100 feet and specifically at Waukesha Fire Station.

ITRealms reports that a federal
judge, Gonzalo Curiel sitting in San Diego on Friday ordered that Donald Trump,
must face trial starting November 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of
defrauding students who attended Trump University.

In a pretrial conference on the
six-year-old lawsuit, the lawyers for the plaintiffs led by Jason Forge, argued
that “justice delayed is justice denied,” insisting a trial to start as early
as this summer, that is immediately after the Republican convention in
Cleveland, declaring, “There are people who are still paying off their debts
for the money they paid to Trump University.”

Trump’s lead lawyer, Daniel
Petrocelli, pointed out that a trial over Trump University would end up
becoming a media spectacle consider the November elections, stressing that Curiel
put the whole matter off until next February, after the inauguration, arguing
that Trump, if elected, would be working “round the clock” during the
transition to form a cabinet.

Curiel, therefore, decided to split
the difference: In an effort to “accommodate” Trump’s political campaign, he
agreed to put the trial off until after the election but scheduled it right
afterward, rather than “waiting for [a] President Trump to begin his first
term,” thereby “placing him a situation where, as a sitting president, he is
taking up time as leader of the free world” to sit through trial.

But Trump may still find his legal
troubles impinging on his campaign; he is facing a separate trial in New York
state courts in a civil fraud suit, also stemming from the ill-fated Trump
University, brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. No trial
date has been set on that case yet, but it was gathered by ITRealms that it
could begin as early as this fall.

ITRealms gathered that the core case
revolves around the operations of a school Trump launched in 2005, which was
never an accredited educational institution, and he was later forced by state
attorneys general to change its name to the “Trump Entrepreneurial Initiative.”

The plaintiffs, former students at 'Trump University,' alleged that Trump used
“misleading, fraudulent and predatory practices,” conning them into maxing out
their credit cards and in some cases paying more than $35,000 in fees for
seminars and “mentoring” by Trump’s “handpicked” real estate experts.